The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-17
peals.
North Carolina State Board of Agri-
culture.

trlCt.
S. B. Alexander, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict (elec0.
A.. Leazer, 9TH Congressional District.
Burwell B~lanton, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict.
DIR. G. D. Smith, 9th Congressional Dis
trict.
OFFICERS.
John Robinson, Commissioner.
T. K. Bruner, Acting Secretary.
C. w. Dabney, Jr., Chemist and Direc-
tor of Experiment Station.
John T. Patrick, General Agent Immi-
grafton.
TRUSTEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND ME-
CHANICAL COLLEGE
The members of the Board of Agricul-
ture, to whom are added:
w. S. Primrose, Wake.
G.. 2. French, Fender.
H. E. Fries, Forsyth.
Gen. R. Barringer, Mecklenburg.
Elias Carr, Edgecombe.
STATE GRANGE PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.
w. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county,
Master.
DIR. J. w. Seasons, Bethel, Lecturer.
w. II. Powell, Battleboro, Treasurer.
&, T. J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre-
tary.
COMMITTEE.
Rev. VIM. Grant, Jackson, n. G.
Capt. w. II. Powell, Battleboro, "
N. T. Ridley, Boykins, Va.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county.
Vice Presidents-W. r. Williams, LIST
Congressional District; w. A. Darden,
I'd Congressional District; G.. 4. French,
Sd Congressional District; w. F. Green,
4th Congressional District; H. E. Fries,
9TH Confessional District; J. S. Reid, 9th
Congressional District; w. II. Hobson,
7th Congressional District; Burwell Blan-
ton, Sth Congressional District; w. ID.
Mcclure, 9th Congressional District.
B. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; S.
Ohio Wilson, Vineyard, and w. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
D. Reid Parker, Trinity College, A.
McIver, Oaks, D. Men. Mckay, Averas-
boro; IL. Polk, Raleigh, and c. Nc
Donald, Concord.
N. c. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
w. G.. Upchurch, Raleigh, President;
John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary.
NORTH CAROLINA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
President-J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
Secretary-S. Ohio Wilson, Vineyard.
Treasurer-J. A. Lineback, Salem.
-Statesville is o o to have a plough
factory.
France is to have another Worlds
Fair in 1889.
England pays about S~15,OOO,OOO
annually for eggs imported into that
country.
Let everybody within reach 60 to
the big farmers meeting at Poplar Tent
on the 10Th.
The total exports from the United
States for the month of September
amounted to $55,281.718.
Prof. Cushman has discovered a
buried city in Southern Arizona and has
unearthed 1000 skeletons.
During the present year and up to
the first of the present month, 53l,505
foreigners landed at Castle Garden.
The Carolina Central Railway is be-
ing overhauled and heavy steel rails are
placed on it from one end to the other.
The peanut crop this year is esti-
mated at 2,85O,OOO bushels, of which
North Carolina produces $4,000 bushels.
Does it pay? A man in Vermont
has 20 Jersey grades which averaged
SLIPS per cow, for butter alone, last
year.
W. A. Austin, of Gibralta, Union
county, has been appointed n OF the
Alliance deputy organizers for Union
county.
No agricultural wealth without i'm
provement Of the soil; no improvement
of the soil without stock; no stock with
out grass.
We see, in some of our exchanges,
cotton seed halls advertised and highly
recommended as q vozuabk food for cattle. |
Is this a Joke?
Mr.. A. O. Powell has been elected
Secretary of Raft Swamp Alliance v'ce
]. W. Lowe resigned. Postofice address, |
Moss Neck, n. G.